Susan Solomon, cofounder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, died on September 8 at age 71 after a years-long journey with ovarian cancer. Solomon, who had been a lawyer, became an advocate for biomedical research in response to health issues in her family. She went on to cofound one of the largest stem cell research nonprofits in the world.
Solomon was born August 23, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, to a record executive father and a pianist mother. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School before marrying drummer Gary Hirsh, with whom she had one son before divorcing. She graduated from New York University with a history degree in 1975. Three years later, she obtained her law degree from Rutgers University before beginning a career that spanned several legal arenas, from workplace discrimination to corporate law to television programming.
In 1980, she married Paul Goldberger. The pair had two ...
